Ralph Giordano (writer)
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Ralph Giordano (b. March 23, 1923 in Hamburg) is a German writer and publicist.
Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a Jewish mother.[1]
Due to his Jewish heritage, he was soon persecuted by the Nazis during the Adolf Hitler regime. During World War II, his family survived the Holocaust by hiding at a friend's place.[1] After his experiences, Giordano became a communist, but soon grew estranged because of his dislike for Stalinism and exited the German Communist Party in 1957.[1]
In 1964, Giordano joined the WDR as a journalist and stayed there until 1988.[1]
Currently, Giordano is a freelance writer and has written numerous articles about his experiences in Nazi Germany, the dangers of Neo-Nazi movements, and sees Islam as a threat: in a New York Times interview (2007), he vehemently opposed the construction of a new mosque in Cologne, citing German mosques as "a symbol of a parallel society", and calling the integration of German muslims "a failure".[2]
[edit] Private life
Giordano has been married to his second wife Roswitha Everhan from 1994 to 2002, until she passed away. He lives in Cologne.[1] Giordano is a close friend of black German-American journalist Hans Massaquoi.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] External links
- Biography at whoiswho.de (German)
